2025-26 Educating for Change Scholarship

Scholarship Invoice 2025-26

The Educating for Change Scholarship, made possible through a generous gift from Dr. Joseph Bick and Ms. Stephanie Koop, provides financial support to California Community College (CCC) students who have a parent incarcerated in a prison administered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Scholarships will help students to enroll in and attend a California Community College. 

NOTE: If you are a student, you must submit your application to your college. Please do not submit an application directly to FoundationCCC. You can find information about the scholarship program, including the application, on our website.

Scholarship Application Period

• The scholarship application invoicing period will begin on February 23, 2026. Because scholarship funds are limited, colleges are encouraged to submit invoices as quickly as possible.
• The deadline for scholarship offices to verify eligibility and submit scholarship invoices to FoundationCCC using this Submittable form by March 25, 2026. .

If you have questions about this invoice or about the Educating for Change Scholarship, please contact advancement@foundationccc.org.  More information about the Educating for Change Scholarship and student scholarship criteria can be found on the website here, and the full Educating for Change Scholarship Guidelines are here.   

Reporting

Colleges that submit an invoice and receive Educating for Change Scholarship funding will be required to submit a simple report to FoundationCCC with the following information:

• Number of scholarship recipients completing the academic term
• Number of scholarship recipients who graduated

A reporting template will be provided by FoundationCCC to colleges. You will submit your Educating for Change Scholarship report via Submittable.

Using the Submission Portal: Submittable

You’ll be submitting your Educating for Change Scholarship invoice for this program via Submittable. Submittable’s help center provides resources and answers and a guide for getting started as a submitter. For technical questions, you can send a message via the Submittable help center here, by clicking the pop-up in the bottom right of the browser window, or contacting Submittable here. 

Getting started 

If you don’t already have a Submittable account, start by creating an account and accessing the 2025-26 Educating for Change Scholarship. When creating an account, your choices for the questions regarding account personalization and staying in touch will not affect how FoundationCCC communicates with you about the Real Estate Education Scholarships. Add collaborators if you’ll be working on the report with others. 

If you need to change an account’s email address, please create a newaccount with the new email address, then identify one or more of the submissions in the old account so that Submittable may be able to move existing submissions to the new account. If you lose access to the email address under which your invoice was submitted or have other technical issues, you can reach out to Submittable by emailing support@submittable.com. If these issues persist, let FoundationCCC know.